LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...
Northern Coast, of Liverpool
Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow...
Hartley, of Southampton,
On the 24th of September, at 11 P.M., the brig Hartley, of Southampton, went on shore on the south end of the Goodwin sands, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W. at the time. At 1-40 A. si. alarm guns and rockets were observed on...
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
Category: Contents
North Britain, of Southampton
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...
New Ways of Raising Money
The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
Ann Mitchell, of Newquay
On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
Category: Articles
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....
The Wreck of the "Oceana."
" Newlyn," Cole Park, Twickenham.
March 20th, 1912.
THE SECRETARY, N. L.-B. INSTITUTION.
DEAR SIR, I should like to bring to your notice the valuable assistance rendered ( to me...
Category: Correspondence